Job Description

Description

As the Plant Manager you will be responsible for manufacturing operations of your facility. This includes direct responsibility for the scheduling, production, maintenance, and warehouse functions of the site. In addition, as the Plant Manager, you will have indirect oversight of prepress, customer relations, and the quality functions of the site. In this role you will work with each functional area to achieve the key performance metrics for the site for safety, quality, customer satisfaction, productivity, and profitability that were developed during the annual budgeting process. This includes development and implementation of continuous improvement activities to assist the site in achieving or exceeding those goals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensure quality product is produced in a safe, consistent, and timely way to exceed customer expectations.
• Lead the management team on the creation, implementation and ongoing monitoring of manufacturing plans, goals, and continuous improvement projects.
• Create and implement training and develop initiatives for direct reports.
• Manage and develop direct reports to include performance management metrics and disciplinary action. Coach and develop direct reports to ensure the team has the depth to take on additional responsibility as the business grows.
• Retrieve and compile data regularly on the facilitys performance. Analyze the data and use it to direct and inform continuous improvement projects.
• Communicate data, findings, and initiatives of the company in regularly scheduled plant meetings.
• Lead the development of annual capital plans along with supplying proper justification or ROI for the facility.
• Work with Director of Quality, Director of Customer Relations, Director of Supply Chain, and Director of Prepress to have indirect oversight of the Customer Relations, Prepress, Quality and Purchasing departments.
• Utilize the companys ERP system to extract and analyze relevant data to drive improvement of operational metrics. Ensure that the scheduling team maximizes the capabilities of the ERP system for efficient scheduling of production equipment at the site.
• Provide management team information by compiling, sorting and analyzing production and performance data.
• Incorporate lean principles to evaluate, implement, and continuously improve production processes and procedures. This entails a specific focus on key metrics, including material waste, setup time, equipment speeds, labor variance, material variance, quality metrics, and on-time delivery.
• Manage capital projects, including but not limited to, equipment installs and relocations on an ongoing, as needed basis.
• Develop and manage budgeting and budget execution with a focus on product costs and margins. This includes determining and achieving year-over-year reductions in spending categories that the Plant Manager is directly responsible for.
• Analyze profitability by account and product line, make recommendations for improvements and implement said recommendations.
• Ensure that, as the company grows, manufacturing capabilities meet or exceed all industry and customer requirements for cost, quality, productivity, efficiency and responsiveness.
• Participate in cross plant initiatives to ensure transfer of best practices across all sites.
• Play an active role in senior-level negotiations with vendors, as appropriate.
• Evaluate and develop new techniques and equipment.
• Foster an open door environment and solutions based team approach within and between all departments and shifts.
• Additional duties as required.

Qualifications

Requirements:
Education and Experience:

• College Degree in Engineering, Manufacturing, or related discipline preferred.
• At least 10 years experience in a mid- or large-size flexographic print manufacturer is required
• At least 5 of those years should be in a management position within the company.
• Proven record of leading manufacturing teams to meet or exceed company goals.
• Lean / Six Sigma experience is preferred.

Job Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Creative, out of the box thinker.
• Proactive with excellent problem solving abilities.
• Self-starter and a team player who will thrive in an entrepreneurial environment.
• Knowledge of EFI Radius is preferred, other manufacturing ERP systems is a plus.
• Must be proficient with Microsoft office (including Microsoft Excel and Outlook).
• Comfortable with data driven management and data tools and analysis.
• Expert knowledge of flexographic printing processes is required. Additional digital press experience preferred.
• Mechanical aptitude and ability to relate mechanical and technical concepts in non-technical language is required.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• Direct supervision of the Scheduler, Production Manager or Supervisor, and Maintenance
• Indirect supervision of production team (press operators, rewinders, press helpers, etc.), CS, Pre-Press, and Quality

Training Requirements:

• Willing to attend required training courses or sessions related to the job as assigned.

Physical Demands:

• Regular sitting and repetitive office tasks are required.
• Position frequently enters and interacts with production area and is required to stand, crouch, lift or do other physical tasks from time to time.
• Pass a pre-employment drug test and subject to random drug screening.

Work Environment:

• Regular exposure to dust and noise in the production environment.
• Warehouse environment temperatures may be influenced by outside temperatures.

Personal Protective Equipment:

• Safety shoes are required in the production area.

Fortis Solutions Group is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and therefore, do not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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